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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™
The future of literacy education is HERE!

Bring the literacy expertise of Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell to all students in your classroom—and open the doors to a world of opportunity beyond.

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ (FPC) is a cohesive, multi-text approach to literacy instruction for all students in grades PreK–6. The System is designed to support whole-group, small-group and independent learning opportunities including: interactive read-aloud; reading minilessons; writing minilessons; shared reading; phonics, spelling, and word study; guided reading; book clubs; and independent reading collections.  Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is rich with authentic texts, lessons or conferring cards, minilessons and professional learning tools for a systematic, transformative approach to literacy instruction.

Lift students' learning beyond the walls of the classroom with texts and a blueprint for teaching that create authentic experiences in reading, thinking, talking, writing, and reflecting to realize what it truly means to live a literate life.

Interactive Read-Aloud Shared Reading Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Writing Minilessons Reading Minilessons Guided Reading Book Clubs Independent Reading Professional Learning Tools
  • What is it?
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    Put expertise into action with Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™: a first-of-its-kind, cohesive system for high-quality classroom-based literacy instruction. Learning deepens when students think, talk, read, and write about authentic texts across many different instructional contexts. Ignite learning with thousands of student texts, lessons, and resources to be used during these major instructional contexts:

    WHOLE-GROUP TEACHING

    1. Interactive Read-Aloud
    2. Shared Reading
    3. Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study
    4. Writing Minilessons
    5. Reading Minilessons

    SMALL-GROUP TEACHING

    6. Guided Reading
    7. Book Clubs

    INDEPENDENT LEARNING

    8. Independent Reading


    Each grade level (PreK–8) also includes:

    • Essential Questions and Inquiry-Based Learning Opportunities
    • Writing About Reading
    • Interactive Writing
    Plus, Professional tools, resources, and learning opportunities for teachers
  • Who is it for?
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    Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is a cohesive, multi-text approach to literacy instruction for all students in grades PreK–6. This systemic approach to classroom-based literacy instruction consists of books, classroom library collections, lessons and conferring cards, sets of minilessons, opportunities for varied talk structures, professional tools, and professional learning opportunities for teachers in PreK through grade six. Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is organized into instructional contexts for teachers looking for an authentic, comprehensive approach to literacy instruction. This multi-text approach honors teacher decision making and the development of a community of readers and writers. Every component of Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ fits together as a whole to reflect a transformative design for language and literacy instruction.

  • What is inside?

    Your classroom is a place where students learn how to read, write, and expand all of their language skills, but it is much more. It is a place where they learn how to be confident, self-determined, curious, kind, and literate members of a community. Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ provides the opportunity

    for students to:

    • see themselves reflected in the books they read and write about
    • grow as thoughtful users of literacy
    • engage in real reading, writing, and thinking

    and for teachers to:

    • work at the cutting edge of students' learning
    • support independence and student agency
    • understand the critical role of responsive teaching in leading literacy learning forward.
  • How is it implemented?

    Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is available for grades PreK–6 with grades 4-6 releasing in fall 2019. Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is organized into instructional contexts that include books, lessons or conferring cards, and sets of minilessons for a systematic and cohesive approach to literacy instruction.

    Interactive Read-Aloud Icon Interactive Read-Aloud - The very best age-appropriate, grade-appropriate trade books to promote the joy of reading, expand vocabulary, and nurture the ability to think, talk, and write about texts that fully engage students’ interest.

    • 120 titles per grade PreK–6
    • Lesson folder per title

    Shared Reading Icon Shared Reading - An exquisite collection of original texts (enlarged and accompanying small versions) that nurture students’ ability to construct meaning in a supported context so they can enjoy reading and learn critical concepts of how texts work.

    • 200 titles spanning grades PreK–3
    • Lesson folder per title

    Guided Reading Icon Guided Reading - The most powerful and engaging authentic, original texts to build each student’s ability to process increasingly challenging books with fluency and comprehension. Build a rich guided reading collection over time with:

    • 50 titles per level A–Z on the F&P Text Level Gradient™
    • Lesson folder per title

    Independent Reading Icon Independent Reading - A carefully curated collection of authentic children’s literature that provides the opportunity for students to develop tastes as readers and to read a large number of self-selected books independently. With accompanying context cards, you can make specific teaching points in brief conferences that lead the individual reader forward.

    • 150 titles per grade K–2
    • 200 titles per grade 3–6
    • Conferring card per title

    Book Clubs Icon Book Clubs - An authentic opportunity to bring students together for in-depth discussion of a captivating trade book they have read in order to extend thinking and learn about themselves as readers.

    • 32 titles per grade K–3
    • 48 titles per grade 4–6
    • Facilitator card per title

    Reading Minilessons Icon Reading Minilessons -The Reading Minilessons Books for grades K-6 contain short, concise, explicit, inquiry-based lessons about a principle that students can apply to their own independent reading. Growing out of the interactive read-aloud experience and linked to independent reading, teachers use many of these texts as examples from which they generalize the understanding.


    Phonics, Spelling and Word Study Icon Phonics, Spelling and Word Study - Brief lessons for either whole- or small-group instruction that help students attend to, learn about, and efficiently use sounds, letters, and words.


    Writing Minilessons Icon Writing Minilessons - Writing Minilessons are brief, focused, explicit lessons that help children/students understand and expand on the characteristics of effective writing and nurture their ability to write with purpose, imagination and voice.

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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Instructional Context Samplers
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Explore the Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Instructional Context Samplers to begin designing the landscape of literacy education in your school.

Each instructional context plays an essential role that contributes in different ways to every student's development as a reader, writer, and language user. Improve student outcomes by creating equitable literacy opportunities for all students with Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™

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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Implementation Timeline

Fountas and Pinnell Classroom™ Implementation Timeline

Take a look at the Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ PreK–6 Implementation and Release Schedule.

This detailed timeline chart will show you which FPC Instructional Contexts will release and when.

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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Components Chart
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Take a look at the Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ PreK–6 Component chart.
This detailed chart will show you the FPC Instructional Contexts and what is included in each one.

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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection

Fountas and Pinnell Classroom™ Implementation Timeline

The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collections include hundreds of original titles (6 copies of each title) that span text levels A through Z, with an accompanying lesson folder for each title. These guided reading books were created by a team of talented authors and illustrators under the direction of Fountas and Pinnell. Each book is carefully calibrated to match the 10 text characteristics underlying the F&P Text Level Gradient™. Review the collections of guided reading books from Grades K–6.

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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection
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The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection includes 1300 NEW, original titles (6 copies of each title) that span levels A–Z on the F&P Text Level Gradient™, with an accompanying lesson folder for each title. These guided reading books were created by a team of talented authors and illustrators under the direction of Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Each book is carefully calibrated to match the text characteristics underlying the F&P Text Level Gradient™.

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Explore Guided Reading, Second Edition

Guided Reading, Second Edition book

Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of guided reading’s critical value within a comprehensive literacy system, and the reflective, responsive teaching required to realize its full potential.

Explore what Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching Across the Grades,Second Edition is: what's inside the book, how it's implemented, and gain access to samples, instructional tools, webinars, and more.

Explore Guided Reading

Explore The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition

The Literacy Continuum

Proficient readers and writers display recognizable behaviors at every phase of literacy learning. When teachers notice, teach, and support these behaviors, they link assessment to responsive teaching. This indispensable literacy tool identifies the behaviors that demonstrate thinking and understanding within, beyond, and about a text. These behaviors are described as continua of learning across eight instructional contexts.

Explore what the The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuumis, what's included, how it's implemented, and gain access to samplers, research, webinars, and more

Explore the Continuum

FPC Webinar

FPC Webinar
Fountas & Pinnell Classroom. The Future of Literacy is HERE

In this 1 hour webinar Fountas and Pinnell introduce you to Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™, a cohesive, multi-text approach to literacy instruction for all students in grades PreK–6.

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Webinar: Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Part 1: The Future of Literacy is HERE
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In this 1 hour webinar Fountas & Pinnell introduce you to Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™, a cohesive, multi-text approach to literacy instruction for all students in grades PreK–6. 

Bring the literacy expertise of Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell to all students in your classroom—and open the doors to a world of opportunity beyond.

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  • Order Form - Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™
    Order Form - Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™
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    Order Form - Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™

    Use this printable order form of all available Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ resources for your purchasing convenience.  Transform your literacy instruction with insightful assessment, effective intervention, practical professional books, and essential classroom resources from literacy leaders Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.

    PLEASE NOTE: All prices and publication dates subject to change. Call or visit Heinemann.com for current pricing.

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